So I've added a page on Solr-SNMP monitoring. It can be found here: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrSnmp Let me know what you think (or feel free to edit it). - Daryl.
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Development Team <dev.and...@gmail.com>wrote: > Two things: > > *1) Solr-Wiki or "contrib"?* > > You know what... I've been thinking this over, and although people > have already expressed interesting in a Solr-wiki page for JBoss-SNMP, I'm > wondering if this would be better to be included as a "contrib" segment of > code. There are pros/cons to each approach. Some things to consider > are: > - If it's in contrib, users have to know to look for it (a wiki page > telling them about it could solve this). > - If it's in contrib, we have a place for the code to live, so we > could make sure it continues to compile as Solr evolves. > - Fully-working SNMP usually requires you have your own *organization > ID* of some kind, so we could at best have a half-implementation, that > would not be testable. > - Because it requires JBoss in order to run, it won't be testable. > Alternatively, I could stick to the wiki-page approach, and just > include large bits of sample code in the wiki page, or include smaller code > snippets in the wiki page *and* include a zip of some more substantial > code. What do you think? > > *2) Exposing Solr's CoreContainer* > > Also, on a related note: My method of implementation was to expose the > solr CoreContainer by sub-classing SolrDispatchFilter and passing the > container into an MBean (essentially). I only did this because I had to, and > I would think a cleaner way to do it would be for Solr to provide a clean > way of accessing the protected "cores" object in the SolrDispatchFilter. > Is it possible to get the CoreContainer without resorting to such > tricks? (According to my research, it isn't, but I haven't read all of > Solr's code yet.) > And if not, is it possible to have Solr changed so that it can expose > the CoreContainer? > > Let me know, > > Daryl. > > > On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 6:48 AM, Development Team <dev.and...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Hi devs, >> A while ago I posted a question to the solr-users list asking about >> SNMP monitoring of Solr. I got one reply suggesting the use of JMX-SNMP >> bridges, but upon researching these I could find a) nothing that seemed >> particularly good, and/or b) none of those that were free/OSS. >> Since then I've found that deploying Solr in JBoss/Jetty with the >> JBoss-SNMP SAR was the easiest way to get this job done. --But it still >> wasn't "easy". >> Thus, my question is; would anybody like to me write up a Solr-Wiki >> page on how to expose Solr stats through SNMP? It's a bit involved, and is >> JBoss-specific, however it is a useful feature that other Solr users may >> benefit from. Let me know. >> >> - Daryl. >> >> >> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Development Team >> <dev.and...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> Hi everybody, >>> How would I set up SNMP monitoring of my Solr server? I've done some >>> searching of the wiki and Google and have come up with a blank. Any >>> pointers? >>> >>> - Daryl. >>> >> >> >
